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Florida football: Dan Mullen on the possibility of Tim Tebow coaching the Gators

By Patrick Schmidt

Tim Tebow is inducted into the Ring of Honor during the game between the Florida Gators and the LSU Tigersat Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on October 6, 2018 in Gainesville, Florida. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
Tim Tebow is inducted into the Ring of Honor during the game between the Florida Gators and the LSU Tigersat Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on October 6, 2018 in Gainesville, Florida. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images) /
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Now that Tim Tebow has retired from his baseball career, Florida has considered hiring the former Gator to Dan Mullen’s coaching staff.

Could there be a homecoming for Tim Tebow and Florida football?

With the Gators legend and former Heisman Trophy winner no longer pursuing a career in baseball, Tebow has some free time on his hands.

According to Florida football coach Dan Mullen, he has talked with the former star quarterback about possibly joining his staff as a coach. Speaking with Paul Finebaum on his Wednesday show, Mullen admits Tebow would be a fantastic coach if he wanted to make it his full-time mission.

Tim Tebow returning as a Florida football coach has been explored

“There has, a little bit,” Mullen said when asked if there’s been talk about hiring Tebow as a coach. “And when you talk to Tim — and I think, Paul, you know Tim and people that know Tim well — I don’t know that the coaching lifestyle fits him, his family, his mission and his calling. Believe it or not, coaching consumes a lot of your time, consumes a lot of your life. And with recruiting, with coaching, with helping your players, mentoring your players, it’s 24-7, 365. Now, to say Tim wouldn’t be good at that is wrong. Tim would be fantastic at that.

While Mullen thinks Tebow would be great if he decided to dedicate his life to being a college football coach in some capacity, he doesn’t think his former pupil is ready to walk away from his current mission and what Mullen believes is his true calling in life. Plus, Tebow continues to work on the SEC Network’s college football coverage during the season.

“But I think he has a calling beyond that to do other things,” Mullen continued. “And I think that to commit himself to the coaching world, the coaching lifestyle, the coaching profession — I don’t know that that would fit his calling to do the other things, and it would really take away from the things that are important to him and what his calling in life is. So I don’t see that happening anytime soon, even though I think he would be fantastic as a coach.”

Maybe coaching isn’t in Tebow’s immediate future but perhaps in a few years or several years, coaching will be in his future and Florida football fans will again see the greatest Gator back on the sidelines in some capacity.

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